We were back to a full programme of Premier League and EFL football this weekend after a two-week break for internationals and what a weekend it was.

Chris Coleman has plenty of work to do to improve a Sunderland side that created unwanted history, while Brentford fans witnessed one of the great misses of all time in their loss at Cardiff.

We look at the good and the bad that happened this weekend, starting with the job Coleman has to do at the Stadium of Light.

Chris Coleman is poised to take over at Sunderland this week

Sunderland’s unwanted record

It has been a miserable year for Sunderland their long-suffering supporters.

In May, the club lost Premier League status when they were relegated from the top flight, manager David Moyes left and Simon Grayson was appointed manager and charged with turning round their ailing fortunes, but any hopes of an immediate return to the promised land always looked unlikely when a number of players left the troubled club.

Owner Ellis Short wants to sell and get out, money has not really been invested in the playing side and after a wretched start to the season, Grayson was sacked with the Black Cats bottom of the Championship.

Now, the club have set a new, unwanted record as they became the first team in English history to go 20 home games without a win, following a 2-2 home draw with Millwall at the Stadium of Light.

Not since Boxing Day 2016 have the Black Cats fans seen a win before them and the club have only three more home games left this year in which to ensure they don’t make it a whole calendar year without a home win.

New manager Chris Coleman had to delay taking charge of the Wearsiders as he was turning on the Christmas lights in Newport this weekend, but after another two points dropped against Ipswich, perhaps he was better off being in south Wales.

Plymouth Argyle not only suffered a 4-0 mauling at the hands of Oxford United, but picked up their sixth red card of the season in the process.

The Pilgrims hit the headlines earlier this campaign when they picked up four in four successive home games, while a further two in reserve games has led to questions being asked of their discipline.

Ryan Edwards was the latest to see red, when he was sent off for a foul on Oxford striker Wes Thomas after just 14 minutes of Saturday’s encounter, and he will now face a two-game ban, as it was his second red card of the campaign, unless Argyle appeal and have the card rescinded.

That is unlikely, even if the sending off seemed somewhat harsh, but it led to yet another capitulation from the Pilgrims who have seen similar collapses after other red cards against the likes of Scunthorpe, Blackpool and Doncaster Rovers.

Neal Maupay of Brentford

Miss of the season?

Brentford have been in great form of late, but their nine-match unbeaten run was ended by Neil Warnock’s Cardiff City.

However, things could have turned out differently had Neal Maupay not missed an absolute sitter in the first half.

After being teed up by Ollie Watkins, Maupay only had to slip the ball into a gaping goal, but chose to find the bottom left corner and subsequently dragged his shot wide of the upright.

“Neal knows he should have scored and 999 times out of a thousand he does. He's had one of those moments you don't want to see on a football pitch," bemoaned Brentford boss Dean Smith at full-time.”

Cardiff boss Warnock had no sympathy for the Frenchman adding: “I can't blame anybody but lad himself for that miss. I have no sympathy at all, he's tried to be clever and give someone the eye rather than put it in.

“That's for him to look at and it gave us respite. An equaliser at that stage, and the way they were playing, you think they could start to dominate.”

Olly Lee of Luton Town in action during the Sky Bet League Two match between Luton Town and Northampton Town at Kenilworth Road

Goal of the season?

From miss of the season to goal of the season and take a bow Luton Town midfielder Olly Lee.

The Hatters are scoring goals for fun this season and having beaten Yeovil Town 8-2 and Stevenage 7-1 already this campaign, they were bang at it again at the weekend with a 7-0 mauling of hapless Cambridge United.

But while Danny Hylton led the way with a hat-trick, Lee took the plaudits for the goal of the game with an outrageous effort from inside his own half.

It was one of two goals for Lee in the game, but as good as his spectacular strike was, plenty of questions will be asked – by Cambridge fans at least – of their goalkeeper David Forde.

Kenilworth Road is certainly the place to go for entertaining football this campaign with the Hatters scoring 31 goals in just nine league games – and two of those were blanks in 3-0 defeats to Swindon and Coventry!

Hat-trick hero

Craig Mackail-Smith has always scored goals, wherever he has been, but he has never scored three in such quick succession before.

The Wycombe Wanderers striker bagged a hat-trick inside 11 minutes on Saturday as the Chairboys thrashed Crawley Town 4-0 at Adams Park to maintain their promotion challenge and move up to sixth place in the League Two table.

Mackail-Smith is approaching 200 goals in a professional career spanning 13 years and includes the likes of Dagenham & Redbridge, Peterborough, Brighton, Luton and now Wycombe.

The Chairboys were already a goal to the good thanks to Eberechi Eze’s goal, but Mackail-Smith struck in the 72 minute to double Wycombe’s lead.

He struck again on 81 minutes and completed the rout – and his hat-trick - with his third and Wycombe’s fourth goal against a poor Crawley side.